Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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